С.А. Герасимова

PARTISANMOVEMENTINTHEKALININREGION IN 1941 – EARLY 1942 (WITHIN THE MODERN BORDERS OF THE TVER REGION)

Authors

С.А. Герасимова

Keywords:

Great Patriotic War, partisan movement, Kalinin region, Tver’ region

Abstract

The article examines the problems of the creation, activity of partisan detachments, their leadership in the initial period of the war only within the borders of the modern Tver’ region. The research is based on the documents of the Tver’ Center for Documentation of Modern History from the funds of the Kalinin Regional Committee of the CPSU(b) and the Headquarters of the partisan movement of the Kalinin region. The author outlined the difficulties in studying the topic, in particular, in determining the statistics of the number of partisan detachments, the number of partisans, the results of their activities, identified periods in the development of the partisan movement on the territory of the districts that are part of the modern region. The article describes the reasons for the insignificant results of the actions of the Kalinin partisans in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War and the importance of partisan practice at this time for the further development of the partisan movement

PARTISANMOVEMENTINTHEKALININREGION IN 1941 – EARLY 1942 (WITHIN THE MODERN BORDERS OF THE TVER REGION)